Alphabetical Poem First Lines

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Wonderful poem :)

"Fair faces crowd on Christmas night" - Gilbert Keith Chesterton; A Portrait... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/gilbert-keith-chesterton/portrait-12156

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A PortraitInteresting poem. Didn´t know the poetic side Of Chesterton.

"GOD says to me with a kind" God's Wheel by Shel Silverstein
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/shel_silverstein/poems/14825

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Lol... I love Shel Silverstein's wit.

Another Christmas pudding poem:

"Ha weel aw remember that big Christmas puddin," - John Hartley; That Christmas Puddin.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/john-hartley/that-christmas-puddin-17886

[Danik 2016]

Loved the pudding poem, reminds me of Dickens Christmas stories which ended up with people consuming the Christmas pudding with their families.

Bursting all alphabetical rules but couldn´t resist:
On the first day of Christmas, my true love said to me, ‘I’ve bought a big fresh turkey". Christmas Dinner by
https://www.poeticexpressions.co.uk/13513-2/

Poem with I:
"I think that I shall never see" Trees by Joyce Kilmer
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/12744/trees

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re: "On the first day of Christmas..." - Lol !

re: Trees... a classic :)

"Just look, how easy do those small birds fly," - Ceyhun Mahi; Quatrain... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/4422259/quatrain/

[Danik 2016]

Quatrain...So much said in so few verses!

"Kindle the Christmas brand, and then"The Ceremonies For Candlemas Day by Robert Herrick
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/robert-herrick/ceremonies-for-candlemas-day-2445

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Quite enigmatic: Candlemas is new to me, and I have family in the Catholic faith... go figger.

"Let none resemble another; let each resemble the highest!" - Friedrich Schiller; A Problem.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/friedrich-schiller/a-problem-30570

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Candlemas. I didn´t know anything about it, there isn´t even a page in Portuguese about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlemas



"Music I love -* but never strain" Music on Christmas Morning by Anne Bronte
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/anne_bronte/poems/3829.html

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Beautiful poem... sets the tone to prepare for Easter.

"Now that we've come to the end" - Paul Muldoon; The Avenue
... https://www.poetrycat.com/paul-muldoon/the-avenue

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed The Avenue. It points to the future what is fitting for an ending of the year.

"On the day the world ends" Song on the End of the World by Czeslaw Milosz
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/czeslaw_milosz/poems/15375

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Seems familiar, and yet an appropriate poem... I love the way it starts: "On the day the world ends / A bee circles a clover,"

"Picasso" - e.e. cummings; Portraits III... https://cummings.ee/book/xli-poems/poem/portraits-iii/

[Danik 2016]

"Picasso"- a very original take.

"Queen of my tub, I merrily sing," A Song From The Suds by Louisa May Alcott
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/louisa-may-alcott/song-from-the-suds-12639

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Cheerful poem :)

"Revolution is the Pod" - Emily Dickinson; Revolution is the Pod... https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogspot.com/2016/01/revolution-is-pod-rattle-pod.html

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"Revolution is the Pod" - Botanical poem
"The Sea called--I lay on the rocks and said:" Sea by Katherine Mansfield
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/katherine_mansfield/poems/2805

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A beckoning by the sea... most alluring: I remember.

"There was a sound of music low--" - Fannie Isabelle Sherrick; Falling Leaves.... https://www.poetrycat.com/fannie-isabelle-sherrick/falling-leaves

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Falling Leaves....Beautiful nostalgia!

"Unhappy about some far off things" The Stars Go Over The Lonely Ocean by Robinson Jeffers
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/robinson_jeffers/poems/17089

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Piggie philosophy at its best ! (4-500 years ought to do it) :)

"Vex not thou the poet’s mind" - Alfred Tennyson; The Poet’s Mind... https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-tennyson/the-poets-mind

[Danik 2016]

lol. Is the Tennyson poem an answer to Jeffers'?

"Walking by moonlight on the golden margin" Fragment by Frances Anne Kemble
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/frances-anne-kemble/fragment-21510

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re: T & J - lol !

re: "Walking by moonlight on the golden margin" - marvelous fantasy poetry; I was captured in the moment :)

Exhausted my 'X' queue of first lines... the next poem follows within the spirit of 'X':

"And in the outer world, the first, something smooth and" - Oliver de la Paz; Solve for X... https://poets.org/poem/solve-x

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Solve for X - Very original take on X!

"YOU spotted snakes with double tongue," Fairy Land by William Shakespeare
https://englishverse.com/poems/fairy_land_ii

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Interesting, Shakespeare invoking Philomel as did Eliot in The Wasteland hundreds of years later with tersely contrasting style. The "Lulla, lulla, lullaby; lulla, lulla, lullaby!" grated a bit on me a bit but then I hearkened back to Eliot's "Weialala leia / Wallala leialala / ... Weialala leia / Wallala leialala / ... la la", though not in the same context.

"ZZ Top was right" - Robert Heemstra; Sharp Dressed Man... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/sharp_dressed_man_476119

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Could Eliot be making a reference to Shakespeare's song? I´m not sure, but if I remember it rightly this is the song that puts fairy Queen Titania to sleep in "A Summer Night's Dream", therefore the lullabying.

Lol! A sharp Z poem!

"A Rock, A River, A Tree" The Rock Cries Out to Us Today by Maya Angelou
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/maya_angelou/poems/506

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Possibly... will have to delve deeper. Here is one reference to Eliot and Shakespeare that doesn't answer the question... http://theshakespeareblog.com/2014/01/t-s-eliot-and-shakespeare/

"Barbara's eyes are blue as azure," - Shel Silverstein; Won't You?... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/wont-you-by-shel-silverstein

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for the link, tailor, it shows anyway that Eliot was influenced by Shakespeare.

Lol! Won't You?...Cute poem!

"Calling, the heron flies athwart the blue" The Creek-Road by Madison Julius Cawein
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/madison-julius-cawein/creek-road-37005

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In The Wasteland Eliot called upon, or alluded to, many literary works. Being not nearly literary literate as Eliot, I was lost without all my study in another thread.

Lovely poem by MJC... I read it once then reread it personalizing it from a story my Mother told me just before she died whereas she went walkabout, truant with her dog in the English countryside as a young girl :)

"Did they send me away from my cat and my wife" - Randall Jarrell Gunner... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/gunner/

[Danik 2016]

Hope you are all well. Californian taifun was in the news yesterday!

Sad poem. Interesting the inversion between cat and wife.

"Earth, round, rolling, compact--suns, moons, animals--all". Carol Of Word by Walt Whitman
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/walt-whitman/carol-of-words-832

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Thanx, I am well. Quite a wind and rain event with just a smattering of lightning - no closer than 4-seconds (less than a mile, more than a kilometer) away. Local flooding but ok here. I think we have a break today (Friday) from the rain so we can assess the damage later.

Interesting, albeit ponderous poem. I enjoyed this line: "This is a poem--a carol of words--these are hints of meanings,", which summed it up for me.

"From hill to hill I roam, from thought to thought," - Francesco Petrarca; Canzone XVII. Di pensier in pensier, di monte in monte. / Distance and Solitude... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/canzone-xvii

[Danik 2016]

Well, Petrarca is Petrarca. I still hope to be able sometime to read him in Italian.

"Gentle angel with your mantle," The Apparition by Duncan Campbell Scott
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/duncan-campbell-scott/apparition-30742

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Liked this poem, and the rhyme scheme suited it :)

"How does the genius make itself known? In the way that in nature" - Friedrich Schiller; Geniality.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/friedrich-schiller/geniality-30593

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed Geniality!

"I started Early – Took my Dog" –I started Early – Took my Dog – by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50976/i-started-early-took-my-dog-656

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Incredible poem :)

"Just when the gentle hand of spring" - Abram Joseph Ryan;
To Mr. and Mrs. A. M. T.... https://www.poetrycat.com/abram-joseph-ryan/to-mr-and-mrs-a-m-t

[Danik 2016]

Loved this poem. A good read for rainy weather.

"Knit, knit, knit, knit!" The Three Little Kittens by Clara Doty Bates
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/clara-doty-bates/three-little-kittens-12803

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Such a sweet poem: ""Miew, miew, miew, / Miew, miew, miew!"

"Lights of unknown desire," - Dr Kamran Haider Bukhari; Who Will Bell The Cat?... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/who-will-bell-the-cat/

[Danik 2016]

Looked up the expression "To bell the cat". A very opportune poem.

"Many roses in the wind" Love Storm by D. H. Lawrence
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/d-h-lawrence/love-storm-22873

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I agree.

Interesting poem... can not quite fathom the underlying tension.

"Not all the streams that water the bright earth," - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet CXVI. Non Tesin, Po, Varo, Arno, Adige e Tebro. / He Extols the Laural and Its Favourite Stream....
https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/sonnet-cxvi

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Re: Love Storm-You are right. I thought of a young person dying, maybe a daughter, because it´s an ongoing situation

Noble Sonnet CXVI!

"Oh moon, who now look over the roof". Verses to the Moon by Luis Carlos López translated by William George Williams
https://poets.org/poem/verses-moon

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Love the last stanza which included the word 'neurasthenic'. Noted the translator was the Father of William Carlos Williams :)

"Pale, at its ghastly noon," - Friedrich Schiller; A Funeral Fantasie.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/friedrich-schiller/a-funeral-fantasie-30700

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"A Funeral Fantasie"- Powerfull and so very German in it´s intense contrasts.

"Queer are the ways of a man I know:" The Phantom Horsewoman by Thomas Hardy
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/thomas-hardy/phantom-horsewoman-17489

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Enjoyed this poem; found an analysis... https://poemanalysis.com/thomas-hardy/the-phantom-horsewoman/

It entered my mind that the "woman" might have been a figurehead perhaps of a sailing ship, though no evidence is given... just a passing thought.

"Rehearsal to Ourselves" - Emily Dickinson; Rehearsal to Ourselves... https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogspot.com/2016/01/rehearsal-to-ourselves-macbeth.html

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Thanks for the analysis, tailor! You may be right, as the man was somehow staring at the sea.

"Rehearsal to Ourselves" a criptic poem.

"Say, where is now that glorious race, where now are the singers" The Bards Of Olden Time by Friedrich von Schiller

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/friedrich_von_schiller/poems/7615

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Enjoyed :) The last 3-lines summed the poem up for me:
"Of the people still clear echoed the soul of the song,
And to whom from without appeared, in life, the great godhead,
Whom the bard of these days scarcely can feel in his breast."

"Torn is each virtue from its earthly throne" - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet VII. La gola e 'l sonno e l' oziose piume. / To a Friend, Encouraging Him to Pursue Poetry.... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/sonnet-vii

[Danik 2016]

Wise Petrarca. Preferred the second translation by Nott.

"Under the snow in the dark and the cold,"The Tendril's Faith by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/ella-wheeler-wilcox/tendrils-faith-32279

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Delightful poem with unusual characters :)

"Vivid with love, eager for greater beauty" - Sara Teasdale; From The Woolworth Tower... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/sara-teasdale/from-the-woolworth-tower-1795

[Danik 2016]

From The Woolworth Tower... Beautiful poem about the nightly view of the city.

"Women reminded him of lilies and roses."Thoughts after Ruskin (1967) by Elma Mitchell
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/thoughts-after-ruskin/

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Glad for the explanation on who Rushkin was... saved googling. An intense poem about the intense work women do on a daily basis... God bless.

Hopefully not a duplicate: (nope, looks good, it's my last "x" poem though :( ... have to REALLY dig)

"X was once a great king Xerxes," - Edward Lear; Alphabet Poem: Letter X... https://www.dltk-teach.com/alphabuddies/songs/x/lear-x.htm

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No, not a duplicate. Interesting X poem.
"Ah, these jasmines, these white jasmines!" The First Jasmines by Rabindranath Tagore
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/rabindranath_tagore/poems/2297

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Enjoyed Tagore's poem :)

"Bring me all of your dreams," - Langston Hughes; The Dream Keeper... https://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/engagement/poetry/poem-a-day/dream-keeper

[Danik 2016]

Charming poem:The Dream Keeper...

" Calm on the breast of Loch Maree" The Well Of Loch Maree by John Greenleaf Whittier
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/john-greenleaf-whittier/well-of-loch-maree-6167

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A druids haunt turned into a holy place of healing: "And blest is he who on his way / That fount of healing findeth!" :)

"Don't allow the lucid moment to dissolve" - Adam Zagajewski; Don't Allow the Lucid Moment to Dissolve... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/don-t-allow-the-lucid-moment-to-dissolve/

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Beatiful modern poem, 'Don't Allow the Lucid Moment to Dissolve.."


A bit late but still in time:

"Each year cometh with all his days," New Year by Abram Joseph Ryan
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/abram-joseph-ryan/new-year-30274

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Enjoyed the Christmas/New Year season poem :)

"From harmony, from heavenly harmony" - John Dryden; A Song For St Cecilia's Day, 1687.... https://www.poetrycat.com/john-dryden/a-song-for-st-cecilias-day1-1687

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Reminds me of a story about music and the Holy Cecilia.
https://biblioklept.org/2014/05/16/saint-cecilia-or-the-power-of-music-heinrich-von-kleist/

''Gaunt in gloom," Nightpiece by James Joyce
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/james_joyce/poems/2466

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Wonderful story by Herr von Kleist :) A version of "Gloria in Excelsis Deo" is a favorite of mine to sing when I'm in the choir.

Joyce's gloomy poem is a gem.

"Hold fast to dreams" - Langston Hughes; Dreams... https://poets.org/poem/dreams

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Dreams...true enough!

"IN tattered robes that hoard a glittering trace" THE INDIAN GIPSY by Sarojini Naidu
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/sarojini_naidu/poems/4569

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Beautiful poem :)

"Joy, thou goddess, fair, immortal," - Friedrich Schiller; Hymn To Joy.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/friedrich-schiller/hymn-to-joy-30690

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Couldn´t help it: By the Solist of the Viena Singer Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmtRiumMQz8

"Lord, I ask a garden in a quiet spot" Lord, I Ask a Garden by Alfonso Guillén Zelaya - (1887-1947)
https://poets.org/poem/lord-i-ask-garden

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Enjoyed the music very much... another joyful strain :)

re: "Lord, I ask a garden in a quiet spot" - A delightful prayer poem of the most humble sort :)

"maggie and milly and molly and may" - ee cummings; Maggie And Milly And Molly And May... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/maggie-and-milly-and-molly-and-may-by-e-e-cummings

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Maggie And Milly And Molly And May... Enigmatic children poem.

"Neither clown nor child nor black" Magellanic Penguin by Pablo Neruda
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/pablo_neruda/poems/15735

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Wonderful Neruda poem... questioning "astronaunt" in translation.
"I am a worm in the sand." :)

"O my own Italy! though words are vain" - Francesco Petrarca; Canzone XVI. Italia mia, benchè 'l parlar sia indarno. / To The Princes of Italy, Exhorting Them to Set Her Free... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/canzone-xvi

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Oh,my! Didn't notice the "astronaunt". Too many mistakes these days, including my own.
Canzone XVI-Majestic poem!
Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower?-Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower?...by Emily Dickinson
https://www.litscape.com/author/Emily_Dickinson/Perhaps_You_Would_Like_To_Buy_A_Flower.html

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Another delightful lilting poem by Emily! :)

"Quiet form of silent nun," - Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell; Soeur Monique... https://www.poetrycat.com/alice-christiana-thompson-meynell/soeur-monique

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Most emphatic poem on a nun I ever saw. Looking for a story, I found this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Souer+Monique&oq=Souer+Monique&aqs=chrome..69i57.13051j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:b6556788,vid:NHB1a-8EhKQ


"Radiant notes" Cactus Seed by Lola Ridge
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/lola-ridge/cactus-seed-29128

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Enigmatic poem by an Avant-garde poet... enjoyed :)

Volatile link for me... finally found a way to have a pleasant classical piece play :)

"Silence! stir not! for a whisper" - H. P. Nichols; The Fishers... https://www.poetrycat.com/h-p-nichols/the-fishers

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed!


"The truth is dark under your eyelids." Against Winter by Charles Simic
https://www.best-poems.net/charles_simic/against_winter.html. Interview with Charlie Simic:
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/01/19/sometimes-a-little-bull****-is-fine-a-conversation-with-charles-simic/

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Interesting poem... the poet even more so.

"Up in heaven," - Jo; In Heaven... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/in-heaven-2

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Sad poem "Up in Heaven". Hope you are well!

"Very old are the woods; "All That's Past" by Walter De La Mare

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/walter-de-la-mare/all-thats-past-33472

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Tired, but well (seasonal). We've had a stretch of sunny, albeit cool, weather... and my wife returned after 3-weeks on holiday Tuesday :)

Masterful economy of words; wonderful poem.

"We mourn the loss of our little pet," Louisa May Alcott; A Lament For S. B. Pat Paw... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-lament-for-s-b-pat-paw/

[Danik 2016]

Sad aaaiii! For one moment one forgets that Snoball lived long ago and may have lived other lives since.

"Ye distant Hills, ye smiling glades,".Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Ever Getting To The Hills by John Kendall (Dum-Dum)

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/john-kendall/ode-on-a-distant-prospect-of-ever-getting-to-the-hills-21588

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Lol

"Zephyr returns; and in his jocund train" - Francesco Petrarca; To Laura In Death. Sonnet XLII. Zefiro torna, e 'l bel tempo rimena. / Returning Spring Brings to Him Only Increase of Grief.... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/to-laura-in-death-sonnet-xlii

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed specially the second translation by WOODHOUSELEE.

I forgot to mention that Charles Simic died some days ago

"As an ant is powerless". The Supreme Moment by Charles Simic
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-supreme-moment/

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Charles Simic - sorry to hear :( "1990 Pulitzer Prize, and served as the United States Poet Laureate" - The Yale Review

.... A rather sad little poem.

"Breathing the stale and stuffy air" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; A Voyage... https://www.poetrycat.com/arthur-conan-doyle/a-voyage

[Danik 2016]

Wow! Conan Doyle writing nostalgic poems!

"Crown me with roses," Crown me with Roses by Fernando Pessoa
https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-21947

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Pessoa wiki (incredibly complex)... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa

Enjoyed :) Interesting poem... sought analysis and learned of a poetry device I've used but never knew it had a name: (anadiplosis) - https://literarydevices.net/anadiplosis/

Not knowing the original Portuguese poem, nor knowing Portuguese, the translation seems slanted toward something in the style ee cummings might have written - which is within Pessoa's range.

Found another translation which better resonates with me, again not knowing the original Portuguese poem, nor knowing Portuguese, translated from the Portuguese by Alessandro Palermo Funari: a poem written by Ricardo Reis (a heteronym of Fernando Pessoa);

Crown me with roses,
Crown me, in truth, with
Roses–

Roses which wither
In face of with’ring
So young!

Crown me with roses
And with fleeting leaves.
That’s all.
(the last poem on the page)...
https://intranslation.brooklynrail.org/portuguese/poetry-by-ricardo-reis-fernando-pessoa/

"Droning a drowsy syncopated tune," - Langston Hughes; The Weary Blues... https://www.arts.gov/stories/blog/2014/jazz-poetry-langston-hughes

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Glad you enjoyed Fernando Pessoa. For me he is the best Portuguese Poet I prefer him even to the classical Camões. He had an English Phase too, during his stay in Great Britain. Not so satisfied with the translations though.
https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Portuguese_Brazilian_Studies/ejph/pessoaplural/Issue8/PDF/I8A22.pdf

Enjoyed the musicallity of Hughes Poem.

"Eagle-heart, child-heart, bonnie lad o' dreams," Love And Art by Charles Hamilton Musgrove
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/charles-hamilton-musgrove/love-and-art-27830

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Choice between love and art seems rather drastic... otherwise enjoyed :)

"Flying fireworks" - McKenna L. Martin; July 4th
... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/july-4th

[Danik 2016]

Agree. Why have only one if you can have both?

"Flying fireworks" Concise Poem!

"Gaily bedight," Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/edgar-allan-poe/eldorado-1710

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True.

Enjoyed :) I too sought El Dorado late in life... and found it (El Dorado County, California) where I found riches beyond the imagination of natural man in Gold Country.

"“How do you feel?” I ask again. I, knowing the answer, poke my head" - Allesha Eman; Double Meaning... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/4097172/double-meaning/

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According to the legends El Dorado also existed somewhere in South America. In a sense we can say that we live in different El Dorados.

“How do you feel?”Dramatic poem.

"I dreamed an angel, Angel twice, through death,"I dreamed an angel, Angel twice, through death...by Anne Whitney
https://www.litscape.com/author/Anne_Whitney/I_Dreamed_An_Angel_Angel_Twice_Through_Death.html

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Enjoyed :) I found the abbaaccadedeed (if I scanned correctly) sonnet rhyme scheme pleasing.

"John Kepler, from the chimney corner, watched" - Alfred Noyes; Kepler... https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-noyes/kepler

[Danik 2016]

Charming Kepler "fable".

"Kittens large and Kittens small," Foreign Kittens by Oliver Herford
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/oliver-herford/foreign-kittens-18463

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:) Delightful poem

"Luna is a female cat from the neighbourhood" - Sylvia Frances Chan; Our Neighbour's Cat... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/our-neighbours-cat/

[Danik 2016]

Cute poem, though nothing surpasses the picture of Luna herself, "peacefully" sleeping. Small mistake here - wait- waited ? :"when she was younger,/she just dropped in and wait,"

Cheating a bit, turning "M" upside down, but the poem is so fitting.
"Winter. Time to eat fat" February by Margareth Atwood.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47787/february-56d2288025b1e

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Most appropriate: "Make it be spring."

"Never was bird, spoil'd of its young, more sad," - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet Cxc
Passer mai solitario in alcun tetto. FAR FROM HIS BELOVED, LIFE IS MISERABLE BY NIGHT AS BY DAY.... https://internetpoem.com/francesco-petrarca-petrarch/sonnet-cxc-poem/

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"Never was bird, spoil'd of its young, more sad," Aaiii!

"O a fat turkey gobbler once sat on a limb" The Sad Turkey Gobbler by Edwin C. Ranck
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/edwin-c-ranck/sad-turkey-gobbler-29031

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Poor turkey :(

"Prate not to me so much of suns and of nebulous bodies;" - Friedrich Schiller; To Astronomers... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/friedrich-schiller/to-astronomers-30584

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Lol! Schiller talking to astronomers is a curiosity in itself.

"Queen of the stars! so gentle, so benign," To The Moon - Rydal by William Wordsworth
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/william-wordsworth/to-the-moon-rydal-4630

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Beautiful homage to the Moon. Rydal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rydal,_Cumbria

"Reportless Subjects, to the Quick" - Emily Dickinson; Reportless Subjects, to the Quick... https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogspot.com/2011/10/emily-dickinson-and-people-4.html

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Thanks for the opportune link, tailor. I was a bit puzzled by Rydal, but didn´t look it up.

Enjoyed that homage to Andersen´s Fairy Tales!

"Sing, Goddess, sing of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus—
that murderous anger which condemned Achaeans
to countless agonies and threw many warrior souls
deep into Hades, leaving their dead bodies
carrion food for dogs and birds—
all in fulfilment of the will of Zeus.
Start at the point where Agamemnon, son of Atreus,
that king of men, quarrelled with noble Achilles.
Which of the gods incited these two men to fight?
That god was Apollo, son of Zeus and Leto.
Angry with Agamemnon, he cast plague down
onto the troops—deadly infectious evil.
For Agamemnon had dishonoured the god’s priest,
Chryses, who’d come to the ships to find his daughter,
Chryseis, bringing with him a huge ransom.
In his hand he held up on a golden staff
the scarf sacred to archer god Apollo.
He begged Achaeans, above all the army’s leaders,
the two sons of Atreus:
“Menelaus, Agamemnon, sons of Atreus,
all you well-armed Achaeans, may the gods
on Olympus grant you wipe out Priam’s city,
and then return home safe and sound.
Release my dear child to me. Take this ransom.
Honour Apollo, far-shooting son of Zeus.”
All the Achaeans roared out their support:
“Respect the priest. Take the generous ransom.”
Displeased, Agamemnon dismissed Chryses roughly:
“Old man,
don’t let me catch you by our hollow ships,
sneaking back here today or later on.
Homer, Iliad Excerpts 2
Who cares about Apollo’s scarf and staff?
I’ll not release the girl to you, no, not before
she’s grown old with me in Argos, far from home,
working the loom, sharing my bed. Go away.
If you want to get home safely, don’t anger me.”
The old man, afraid, obeyed his words, walked off in silence,
along the shore by the tumbling, crashing surf.
Some distance off, he prayed to lord Apollo,
Leto’s fair-haired child:
“God with the silver bow,
protector of Chryse, sacred Cilla,
mighty lord of Tenedos, Sminthean Apollo,
hear my prayer: If I’ve ever pleased you
with a holy shrine, or burned bones for you—
bulls and goats well wrapped in fat—
grant me my prayer. Force the Danaans
to pay full price for my tears with your arrows.”
So Chryses prayed. Phoebus Apollo heard him.
He came down from Olympus top enraged,
carrying on his shoulders bow and covered quiver,
his arrows rattling in anger against his arm.
So the god swooped down, descending like the night.
He sat some distance from the ships, shot off an arrow—
the silver bow reverberating ominously."
From The Iliad by Homer http://people.uncw.edu/deagona/lit/Iliad%20excerpts.pdf

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"To think that, as a boy of thirteen, I would grapple" - Paul Muldoon; Pineapples And Pomegranates... https://www.poetrycat.com/paul-muldoon/pineapples-and-pomegranates

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Enjoyed the provocative contrasts Paul Muldoon establishes between pineapple and pomegranate.

"Uncle Sidney, when he wuz here," The Squirtgun Uncle Maked Me by James Whitcomb Riley
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/james-whitcomb-riley/squirtgun-uncle-maked-me-29431

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Enjoyable vernacular poem (tough in bits). Didn't know one could make squirt guns with bits of elderberry wood. Also took me down the path to the history of the Super Soaker :)

"Voltaire, our England's lover, man divine" - Algernon Charles Swinburne; Lucifer... https://www.poetrycat.com/algernon-charles-swinburne/lucifer

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Does really Voltaire deserve all this?

"We’d rather have the iceberg than the ship,". The Imaginary Iceberg by Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
https://www.thepoetryhour.com/poems/the-imaginary-iceburg

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re: Voltaire... most curious. I found the following by Hugo: https://www.angelfire.com/mn3/mixed_lit/hugo_voltaire.htm

"Icebergs behoove the soul
(both being self-made from elements least visible)
to see them so: fleshed, fair, erected indivisible." - wonderful thoughts by Elizabeth Bishop.

Poem by poet whose name starts with "X" :)...

"Deep in spring, the rain's passed- West Lake is good." - Ouyang Xiu; Deep in Spring, the Rain's Passed (Picking Mulberries)... http://www.chinese-poems.com/oyx2.html

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Loved this vehement praise of Voltaire by Victor Hugo!

Lovely poem. Reminded me of angliholic.

"Ye people of Ireland, both country and city," A New Song On Wood's Halfpence by Jonathan Swift
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/jonathan-swift/new-song-on-woods-halfpence-36071

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Interesting historical poem; found this background... https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2018/0104/931065-the-swift-code-jonathan-swifts-war-on-currency/

"zippity-do-dah" - Steve Patterson; Zippity-Do-Dah... https://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewPoetry.asp?id=77391&AuthorID=6362

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Congrats for still finding poems with first line beginning with "z". My full support for the chorded mouse.

"AT VILLAGE lived, in days of yore," Azolan by Voltaire
https://allpoetry.com/Azolan.

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Enjoyed... had to use a different link: https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/azolan

"Beyond all this, the wish to be alone:" - Philip Larkin; Wants... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/philip_larkin/poems/14583

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Philip Larkins poem Wants _ Ai!


"camouflage" -camouflage cat by Constance La France
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poems/calico_cat

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Loved the alliteration :)

"Draw a crazy picture." - Shel Silverstein; Put Something In... https://allpoetry.com/Put-Something-In

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Loved that Shel Silverstein poem!

"Earliest morning, switching all the". Love Lies Sleeping by Elizabeth Bishop

https://www.thepoetryhour.com/poems/love-lies-sleeping

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Loved Elizabeth Bishop's poem :) Her poem is like a breath of fresh air with her expert use of words.

"Fear" - Phyllis Hand; Fear vs Curiosity... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/4450750/fear-vs-curiosity/

* Sorry I missed this earlier, wife in hospital again (Wednesday: helo life-flight/recovering slowly at hospital) and I'm a bit scattered. Bad fall after getting out of her car (blackout?), 20 feet from where she was going to on the property; trauma, possible concussion at the time; firemen/EMT's; helicopter flight: accidently gave her a microdose of a drug she's allergic to (fentanyl); trauma unit: body severely convulsive/extreme pain everywhere/neck collar; another misstep with a drug no one knew she was allergic to early Sunday morning (psychotic episode)... endless CT scans... not able to get MRI yet. Coherent now... hates the food; not a happy camper.

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Sorry to read all this. I wish your wife a quick recovery! Maybe you write a list with all the drugs you know she is allergic to, as these emergency people are not the ones that usually attend your wife. That she complains about the hospital food is a very good sign!

"Gentle Spring! - in sunshine clad," Spring by William Henry Giles Kingston

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/william-henry-giles-kingston/spring-21834

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Cheerful poem :)

"Had tuneful Maro seen, and Homer old," - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet CLIII. Se Virgilio ed Omero avessin visto. / The Most Famous Poets of Antiquity Would Have Sung Her only, Had They Seen Her.... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/sonnet-cliii

Brought my wife home late last night after 5-days :) ... much pain still, she will stay at her sister's for a while (next door) and receive some out-care.

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Congrats for the good news! As she is staying next door, you can visit her easily. She probably will be up in no time.

Petrarca singing about Laura


"I've been in love for long" In Love For Long by Edwin Muir

famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/edwin_muir/poems/2716

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Thanx!

Used this link... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-love-for-long/

Ambivalent about the poem... maybe the rhyme and meter?

"Jerusalem! Jerusalem!" - Alfred Tennyson; The Fall Of Jerusalem... https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-tennyson/the-fall-of-jerusalem

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Cannot tell! A love poem that isn´t personal, more generic? Maybe it´s that.

"Jerusalem< Jerusalem!" Still so up to date!

"King Leir once ruled in this land". King Leir And His Three Daughters by George Wharton Edwards
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/george-wharton-edwards/king-leir-and-his-three-daughters-15217

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Found this on pages 177 - 180 Master Thesis: "Journeys and Places: A Study of the Poetry of Edwin Muir"
And it is love that empowers him, in the celebratory poem "In
Love for Long" (159-160) to come to an absolute awareness of life and
to find the hidden, unifying ground of existence. In this poem Muir
captures and makes formal the magic of an experience he had during the
War years while sitting in the countryside and gazing at the scene
around him. "Suddenly and without reason," he recalls, he felt a
deep and abiding fondness for the hills, the cottages, the clouds,
the soft, subdued light, and for the very ground he sat upon and he
realized that he loved these things "for themselves. n 56 As he seeks
to give concrete form to his experience of an irreducible and ir55Ibid., ;. 120.
56cited by Butter, in Edwin Muir: Man and Poet, p. 206, from
the B.B.C. "Chapbook," 3 Sept. 1952. As Muir recalls in a B.B.C.
broadcast: "I was up at S\vanston in the Pentlands one Saturday morning during the War. It was in late summer; a dull, cloudy, windless
day, quite warm. I was sitting in the grass, looking at the thatched
cottages and the hills, when I realised that I was fond of them,
suddenly and without reason, and for themselves, not because the
cottages were quaint or the hills romantic. I had an unmistakable
warm feeling for the ground I lvas sitting on, as if I were in love
with the earth itself, and the clouds, and the soft subdued light. I
had felt these things before, but that afternoon they seemed to
crystallise, and the poem came out of them."
resistible love, a love grounded in the soil of this world> Muir seeks
to create a poetry of a higher order, a poetry which tells the untellable and gives shape to the intangible. He seeks to grasp, in the
verbal space of the poem, that mysterious force which grasped him,
that force from lvhich "there's no escape~" and that force which
challenges his poetic powers of expression:
I've been in love for long
With what I cannot tell ·
And will contrive a song
For the intangible
That has no mould or shape,
From which there's no escape.
(1-6)
As he trys to penetrate the enigma of "what" it is he loves in these
simple trimeter lines with their rich mixture.of simple and Latinate
diction, the speaker-poet poses a riddle. Giving a series of clues to
the identity of the mysterious thing he loves, he invites the reader
to become involved in the process of discovery. For though what he
loves is "not even a name," yet it is "all constancy" ;(7·-8). It is
simultaneously as fleeting and airy as a "breath" and as "still., and
stable as "the established hill" (11-12). Whether "Tried or untried,"
it is "the same" and it is an essential part of his being for it "cannot part from him" (9-10). What he loves resides in paradox and contradiction for he loves the very stuff of ''being" itself:
It is not any thing,
And yet all being is;
Being, being, being,
Its burden and its bliss.
How can I ever prove
What it is I love?
(13-18)
·179
What he loves cannot be grasped through the reason nor can it be
localized or confined by the intellect--i.e., he cannot "prove" it.
What he loves can only be grasped in a poetic song, a song of utter
simplicity and child-like intensity.
It is his love for being that enables him to find a domain of
freedom within time's prison, a world of good within the framework of
the world's evils, an overarch~g joy within the realm of life's
sorrows. For th~ugh his ''happy happy love" for being is beseiged with
the "crying sorrows" of death (19-20), though time's "vice" crushes
it "beneath and above/Between to-days and morrows" (21-22), yet he
retains his love for being. His love is "A little paradise/Held in
the world's vice" (23..:24):
And there it is content
And careless as a child,
And in imprisonment
Flourishes sweet and wild;
In wrong, beyond wrong,
All the world's day l~ng.
This love a moment known
For what I do not know
And in a moment gone
Is like the happy doe
That keeps its perfect laws
Between the tiger's paws
And vindicates its cause.
(25..:37)·
Though the ''happy" moment of love passes, in its integral time-space
unit the speaker-poet recovers the world of innocence,· joy, and fulfillment. Though vulnerable and doomed by time, his love, like the
''happy doe" found in the tiger's grasp, "vindicates its cause" by the
very fact of its existence. For his love creates its own dynamic
world of perfected order and value, its own fullness of presence, its
--
180.
own open moment of time. Freedom and joy emerge within the boundaries
of time. Human life can be infinitely expanded within the boundless
moment of love. ... https://ecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4017&context=luc_theses

re: King Leir And His Three Daughters - enjoyed the sad tale told in the poem :)

re: The Fall Of Jerusalem - Too true.

"Look at me, I'm a mah-ve-lous cat." - elysabeth faslund; Mah-Ve-Lous Cat... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mah-ve-lous-cat-humor/

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Great find, tailor. I chose this poem because I liked it´s more universal note. Poems of the personal kind are abounding.

re Mah-Ve-Lous Cat...: AAAAIIII!

"NOW winter nights enlarge" Winter Nights by Thomas Campion
https://englishverse.com/poems/winter_nights

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Enjoyed :) "Some measures comely tread, / Some knotted riddles tell, / Some poems smoothly read."

"Oh, I am very weary," - Anne Brontë; Appeal... https://poemanalysis.com/anne-bronte/appeal/

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Appeal, a very sad poem. Thanks for the analysis. Just one more comment. Some biographies of the Brontë sisters suggest that Anne might have fallen in love with a young curate, William Weightman, who worked with her father. But there is little evidence of that. Some poets and the protagonist of Agnes Grey falling in love and marrying a curate in the novel.

"Paris, from throats of iron, silver, brass,"Destiny by Emma Lazarus
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/emma-lazarus/destiny-23044

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Found an informative Master's thesis re: Anne & her writing that I perused quickly by searching the document using "marr" - "Anne Brontë: A Feminist Voice in the Novel by Paloma Ríos Prieto... http://e-spacio.uned.es/fez/eserv/bibliuned:master-Filologia-ELyCIyPS-Prios/Rios_Prieto_Paloma_TFM.pdf Very informative.

re: Destiny - the last line (one word) turns the entire poem upon its head :(

"Quoth the thief to the dog, let me into your door" - Jonathan Swift; The Dog And Thief... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/jonathan-swift/dog-and-thief-36081

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re: Thanks for the thesis, tailor, will take a look at it.

re: I fully agree about the Bonaparte Poem.

re: Enjoyed Swift´s critical poem.

"Radiant notes"Cactus Seed by Lola Ridge
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/lola-ridge/cactus-seed-29128

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Enjoyed this surprising poem :)

"Settle for nothing" - Abu Tayyib Al; [Poem]... https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/w5lsw7/poem_by_abu_tayyib_almutanabbi/

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"Settle for nothing", a lofty poem!

"This harbour was made by art and force." The Harbour by Eavan Boland
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/eavan_boland/poems/1203

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Enjoyed the poem and found another literary reference: https://www.dunlaoghairetown.ie/james-joyce-dun-laoghaire-town/ :)

"Upon the left shore of the Tyrrhene sea," - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet LI. Del mar Tirreno alla sinistra riva. / The Fall... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/francesco-petrarca/sonnet-li-28460

* corrected link

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Thanks for these interesting references to Kingston Harbour. I didn´t know it was that important for Joyce.

""Vallombrosa, I longed in thy shadiest wood"Memorials Of A Tour On The Continent, 1820 - XXIX. - Stanzas - Composed In The Simplon Pass by William Wordsworth

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/william-wordsworth/memorials-of-a-tour-on-the-continent-1820-xxix-stanzas-composed-in-the-simplon-pass-4291

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A longing for history past and a reunion of home: "O joy when the girdle of England appears!" :)

"Wandering 'round my flat" - Dónall Dempsey; Time Past Is Time to Come... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sunday-times-tankas-for-ruthie/

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Dónall Dempsey; Time Past Is Time to Come... Interesting poem. Liked specially the "introduction".

A poem with "X" in the title:

"They called me to be an extra" X-ray inferno by Miroslava Odalovic
http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=462635

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Love this poem; it touches me on a few levels. 1) My cousin, the actor, ran a theatre in Anchorage, Alaska called Cyrano's with his wife for years... I believe it's closed now. 2) Our local theatre in Coloma (California Gold Discovery site town) has had many from our church act and serve in many capacities. Unfortunately I have never attended either, but will in the future attend our local theatre :) So sad that the poem's theatre was lost :(

"You cannot" - Blake Auden; Choose How You Spend Your Time... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/choose-how-you-spend-your-time

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re: Wow! I used to participate in a theater group when I still was at the university. We presented a play at the end of each year and in the graduation year it was a collection of poems. That is something you could undertake to with your poetry group, if you don´t have such a group already. All you need is a room to hold your audience and a microphone for a larger audience.

Enjoyed the Blake Auden poem!

"Citadel of our best names—angsty Zooey & chatty" Z by Julie Marie Wade
https://poets.org/poem/z

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I was talked into being in a play in the sixth grade... it was terrifying.

"A new volcano has erupted," - Elizabeth Bishop; Crusoe in England... https://www.thepoetryhour.com/poems/crusoe-in-england

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re: Oh my! Well, acting often seems to me a contest between shyness and exibitionism. But, I think declaiming a poem is different. One doesn´t have to act.

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re: Oh my! Well, acting often seems to me a contest between shyness and exibitionism. But, I think declaiming a poem is different. One doesn´t have to act.

Loved Bishop´s take on Robinson Crusoe.

Cheating a bit:
"If baby only wanted to, he could fly up to heaven this moment." Baby's Way by Rabindranath Tagore
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/rabindranath_tagore/poems/2205

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Sweet poem... found a short analysis: https://genius.com/Rabindranath-tagore-babys-way-annotated

"Come, my fine cat, to my amorous heart; - Charles Baudelaire; The Cat... https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-baudelaire/the-cat-come-my-fine-cat-to-my-amorous-heart

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Thanks for the "analysis" of "Babys Way" Shouldn´t the title in English be: "Babys Ways"?

AAII! Baudelaire in highly caty mood!

"Dark the sea was: but I saw him," The Fish by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/gilbert-keith-chesterton

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re: Baby's Way - I believe it is (personal) singular possessive.

Interesting poem alluding to Psalms 2:4.

"Emblems of Christ our Lord," - Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass; The Lilies... https://www.poetrycat.com/nancy-rebecca-campbell-glass/the-lilies

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Hope that the cold has receded. California was in the international news again, yesterday.

re: Thanks!
re: I didn´t know that the poem aluded to one of the Psalms.

The Lilies...delicate poem!

"The Butterfly's Numidian Gown"The Butterfly's Numidian Gown by Emily Dickinson
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/emily_dickinson/poems/7384.html

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We had maybe 0.20 m of snow here, no Snowmaggedon for us, with a bit more snow expected. We made an announcement for 4-wheel drive or all wheel drive vehicles recommended for church (a bit higher elevation) and cancelled meetings other than Sacrament meeting... got some snow shoveling in.

Lovely poem by Emily :) Found an interesting help in an unexpected place re: "Numidian": https://edl.byu.edu/lexicon/term/555548

"Come forth, O rain! from thy cool, distant hall," - Nora Pembroke; To The Rain
... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke/to-the-rain

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re: Luckily there soon will be spring!

re: How cute. Added the Emily Dickinson to my favorites and I´m putting the link into the other forum.

re: To The Rain ( nice poem to the rain at a time it caused less destruction than today.)

"Dame Spider had spun herself lank and thin." Camping Out by Clara Doty Bates
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/clara-doty-bates

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Still getting floods and landslides down your way ? More snow today here <0.20 m but may get 0.30 m Tuesday/my tomorrow (which starts in about 20 minutes)

"Every man worth the name" - Charles Baudelaire; The Warner... https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-baudelaire/the-warner

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The affected beach towns are still very much on the allert, because the weather forecast announced more rain. About 4.000 people are homeless. Some of the people with houses in danger are getting back, because they don´t have anywhere else to go.
reuters.com/world/americas/death-toll-brazil-floods-landslides-reaches-54-2023-02-24/r

Loved The Warner

"Facing west, from California's shores," Facing West From California's Shores by Walt Whitman
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/walt-whitman/facing-west-from-californias-shores-854

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Sorry to hear re: floods, etc. :(

Enjoyed this fine poem by Whitman :)

"Gather, oh gather! gather, oh gather" - Nora Pembroke; A Welcome - The Campbells Are Coming... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke/a-welcome---the-campbells-are-coming

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A Welcome - The Campbells Are Coming...A festive poem. Did a rapid search for background information but didn´t find anything.

"Hack and Hew were the sons of God" Hack And Hew by Bliss Carman (William)
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/william-bliss-carman

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re: Campbells - might refer to the Robbie Burns tune https://www.scottish-country-dancing-dictionary.com/campbells-are-coming.html

Lol, hadn't heard of Hack and Hew in my scripture study... we did have a wonderful poet named Hack who used to contribute to LitNet.

"It chanced upon a certain day," - Fanny Fire-Fly; The Ducks And The Frogs - A Tale Of The Bogs....
https://www.poetrycat.com/fanny-fire-fly/the-ducks-and-the-frogs---a-tale-of-the-bogs

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re: Thanks. Very enlightening the link about the Campbells.
re:The Ducks And The Frogs, charming children poem. I was wondering if children still read poetry!

"Jest as atween the awk'ard lines a hand we love has penn'd" The Old Homestead by Eugene Field
https://www.poetrycat.com/eugene-field

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Loved the light Yankee vernacular :)

"Kittens large and Kittens small," - Oliver Herford; Foreign Kittens... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/oliver-herford/foreign-kittens-18463

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Foreign Kittens...AAII!

"Let the Nightingale still be renown'd for her song,"The Baya: Or The Indian Bird by William Hayley (A bit long but liked the legend)

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/william-hayley

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Lovely long ballad... the Baya weaver bird renown for other than its song, though its song too is sweet: https://www.google.com/search?q=baya+weaver+bird+song&newwindow=1&client=opera&hs=yww&sxsrf=AJOqlzVn5OgJ7DCh2-ZoHwy4gCd3_gQpQw%3A1678198655067&ei=f0cHZKfUA8mqqtsPsPmgoAE&ved=0ahUKEwjnj8qVgcr9AhVJlWoFHbA8CBQQ4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=baya+weaver+bird+song&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQAzIFCCEQoAEyBQghEKABMgU IIRCgATIFCCEQqwI6CggAEEcQ1gQQsAM6DQgAEOQCENYEELADG AE6DAguEMgDELADEEMYAjoPCC4Q1AIQyAMQsAMQQxgCOgQILhB DOgQIABBDOgUIABCABDoGCAAQFhAeOgUIABCGA0oECEEYAFDEC lj5GGCtHGgBcAF4AIABhgeIAbYTkgEDNi0zmAEAoAEByAEPwAE B2gEGCAEQARgJ2gEGCAIQARgI&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:423efdbb,vid:XDqHNt9caxY :)

"Most likely, you think we hated the" - Matthew Olzman; Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years From Now... https://poets.org/poem/letter-someone-living-fifty-years-now

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Cute Baya weaver bird with it´s yellow canary breast. Your link is not allowed here, it seems, but I did a bit of google research for the bird and it´s chant.

Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years From Now...Liked this impressive ecological poem!

"Nature’s first green is gold," Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
https://poets.org/poem/nothing-gold-can-stay#:~:text=Nothing%20Gold%20Can,%2D%201874%2D196 3

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Wonderful poem :)

"Often o'er life's pathway straying" - Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass; Musings... https://www.poetrycat.com/nancy-rebecca-campbell-glass/musings

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Musings...Beautiful nostalgic (but not entirely)poem.

"Pale as a star that shines through rain"A Legend Of The Lily by Madison Julius Cawein

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/madison-julius-cawein

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A Legend Of The Lily... a bit tedious with a happy ending :)

Staying with MJC:

"Quaint and forgotten, by an unused road," - Madison Julius Cawein; The Old House.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/madison-julius-cawein/old-house-36918

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Beautiful poem!

"RAIN - rain - rain - for three good solid fluid weeks' -Water by William McKendree Carleton
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/william-mckendree-carleton

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Interesting poem, 3 or 4 in one in mood and pace; "I've journeyed up and down through half Broadway, / And did not see a first-class smile to-day." :)

"Standing under the fobbed" - Philip Larkin; Send No Money... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/philip_larkin/poems/14592

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Re: lol, Yes. "Rain"; "A night in the Theater"; "The Play"...

Found this analysis of Larkins poem, which at first seemed difficult to me:
https://interestingliterature.com/2017/03/a-short-analysis-of-philip-larkins-send-no-money/#:~:text='Send%20No%20Money'%2C%20in,'the%20way%20 things%20go'.

"The yard half a yard," The Lake by Deborah Ager
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/deborah_ager/poems/317

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re: Larkin - Wow... that's a great find and a lot more than I got out of it :)

re: The Lake - Enigmatic; I had to find help on this one... https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-main-point-poem-what-author-really-trying-say-278442

"Valley, which long hast echoed with my cries;" - Francesco Petrarca; To Laura In Death. Sonnet XXXIII. Valle che d' lamenti miei se' piena. / On His Return to Vaucluse After Laura's Death... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/to-laura-in-death-sonnet-xxxiii

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Thanks for the link on The Lake, tailor. I think though that there is more to it. "Months have passed since, well,
everything." The poem doesn´t reveal, what this everything is, but it may be the clue of the poem. It may represent a general event like a flood, for example, or a personal experience of the "I" of the poem.

Sonnet XXXIII by Petrarca. I have the feeling that the second translation is more faithful to the original

Including "U". "Under a daisied bank". The Milkmaid by Thomas Hardy
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/thomas-hardy

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oops...

"the milk purrs in the pail" :) Quite poetic ! I looked for an analysis and got sidetracked; found a short story by Hardy, The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid, on Project Gutenberg which in the reading I thought might answer a question or two. A delightful read - it did enlighten me perhaps.

"Woodcutter." - Federico García Lorca; Song of the Barren Orange Tree... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/620120/song-of-the-barren-orange-tree/

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re: Going to look for the short story :)!

Lorca is one of mY favorite poets. I like his dramatic intensity, which is a bit less visible in the translation

Found this charming analysis of the poem:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2007/03/lorcas-the-song-of-the-barren-orange-tree

"You can keep your antique silver and your statuettes of bronze," My Old Football by John Milton Hayes
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/john-milton-hayes

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re: Lorca - Wonderful analysis ! I hadn't considered the second interpretation at all... a very deep poem.

re: Football - Interesting life and war story woven around a football metaphor... enjoyed.

"Zero things come to mind." - Nick Randall; Zero Things... https://tdc.ds106.us/writings/zero-things/

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"Zero things come to mind." Curious poem. You always manage to find new "Z" poems.

"At five in the afternoon." From Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías by Lorca (it´s about the death of a famous bull fighter. I usually wouldn´t chose a poem about bullfight, but it is Lorca at his most dramatic).

https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Spanish/LorcaPoemsLoveDeath.php#anchor_Toc127791455:~:text =stallion%20is%20crying.-,From%3A%20Llanto%20por%20Ignacio%20S%C3%A1nchez%2 0Mej%C3%ADas%2C%201935,Lament%20for%20Ignacio%20S% C3%A1nchez%20Mej%C3%ADas,-The%20Goring%20and

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An event etched in time.

"Beneath a broad grey sky, upon a vast and dusty plain devoid of grass, and where not even a nettle or a thistle was to be seen, I met several men who walked bowed down to the ground." - Charles Baudelaire; Every Man His Chimera... https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-baudelaire/every-man-his-chimera

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Every Man His Chimera... Impressive in form and content!

"A Charm invests a face" A Charm invests a face by Emily Dickinson

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Emily_Dickinson

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A truly charming poem; a little help here... https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-charm-invests-face-freckled-girl.html

"Dead! Where the bold and brave" - A. H. Laidlaw; The Custer Wail.... https://www.poetrycat.com/a-h-laidlaw/the-custer-wail

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By trying discover who Custer was I hit on this:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn.
"Early within his workshop here,"Explanation Of An Ancient Woodcut, Representing Hans Sachs' Poetical Mission by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
https://www.poetrycat.com/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/explanation-of-an-ancient-woodcut-representing-hans-sachs-poetical-mission#:~:text=Search-,Explanation%20Of%20An%20Ancient%20Woodcut%2C%20Re presenting%20Hans%20Sachs%27%20Poetical%20Mission. ,-A%20poem%20by

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Interesting wikipedia article. A series of unfortunate events including not utilizing the WMD of the day by the protagonists... a bloody mess.

A Word Can poem I wrote that is yet unedited and untitled from yesterday's Thursdays at Two poetry group using the words kitty-corner/shallow/bury/bunk/invoke/indigenous:




yet untitled

invocations for the indiginous peoples
I dream snug in my bunkbed
kitty-corner to a western tableau
yet too shallow to muffle their cries

3/16/2023

re: "Woodcut... " In my attempt to find the original German version (to see the original rhyme scheme) I found this addendum to the poem:
[I feel considerable hesitation in venturing to offer this version of a poem which Carlyle describes to be 'a beautiful piece (a very Hans Sacks beatified, both in character and style), which we wish there was any possibility of translating.' The reader will be aware that Hans Sachs was the celebrated Minstrel- Cobbler of Nuremberg, who Wrote 208 plays, 1700 comic tales, and between 4000 and 5000 lyric poems. He flourished throughout almost the whole of the 16th century.]... https://www.hellenicaworld.com/Germany/Literature/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe/en/ThePoemsOfGoethe.html

... ""I, to ordain thee come," she spake:
"So prosper, and my blessing take!
The holy fire that slumb'ring lies
Within thee, in bright flames shall rise;" :)

Incredible poem.

"From Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, on this fine morning," - Elizabeth Bishop; Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore... https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/eb-invit.htm

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I´m glad you haven´t given up poetry. Enjoyed the poem. Used to have the feeling that a cat bunker protected against the suffering world outside. But it was a fallacious feeling.

Found a link to Goethe´s poem about Hans Sachs in German:
https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/goethe/gedichte/chap274.html

Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore... What a beautiful, imaginative poem!

"GOLDEN sun of victory, born" To My Children by Sarojini Naidu
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/sarojini_naidu/poems/4585

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I´m glad you haven´t given up poetry. Enjoyed the poem.

Thank you! Lol... no I haven't given up on poetry, perhaps a bit fallow with expectations for poetry month that is arriving swiftly in April :)


Used to have the feeling that a cat bunker protected against the suffering world outside. But it was a fallacious feeling. - Oh, if this were true :)


Found a link to Goethe´s poem about Hans Sachs in German:
https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/goethe/gedichte/chap274.html - Will have to revisit :)


Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore... What a beautiful, imaginative poem! - :)


"GOLDEN sun of victory, born" To My Children by Sarojini Naidu
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/sarojini_naidu/poems/4585 - Wonderful blessings to her children :)

"Here lies a man cut off by fate" - Friedrich Schiller; Epitaph.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/friedrich-schiller/epitaph-30675

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"If I forget thee, Jerusalem," If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem by Yehuda Amichai
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/yehuda_amichai/poems/77

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Taken in part from Psalm 137... https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/ps/137?lang=eng

Found an interesting point and counterpoint in analysis... https://mypoetryforpeace.weebly.com/if-i-forget-you-jerusalem.html

"Jorge, no matter where we go together" - Sarina Romero; To Jorge Luis Borges... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/157925/to-jorge-luis-borges

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re: Hans Sachsens poetische Sendung - Great find :) Odd, I was expecting a non-rhyming scheme in the original German for some reason.

Attempted a side by side Poem / Google translation / Interpretation document:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/133ExRGEPONCykNalUFPRZPreIegQJmpjntUHRtj5L9g/edit?usp=sharing

Granted the Google translation may be imperfect, though far surpassing anything I could come up with, but one can see the liberties taken between the Poem and its interpretation.

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Wow! That poem really inspired you tailor! I´m just in the middle of what I call half moving activity packing books, and other things and cleaning furniture. Tomorrow if all goes well, a truck will take more of half my belongings, including all my physical books away.
As soon as possible I´ll take a close look at your (or Googles) translation.
Meanwhile here is the English link on Hans Sachs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Sachs

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Good work, tailor! I think the merit of this interpretation was to reproduce the spirit of the original even taking some liberties with it. I became curious who the translator might be. I found the blog with the interpretation but I didn´t find the name of the translator.

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Taken in part from Psalm 137... https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/ps/137?lang=eng

Found an interesting point and counterpoint in analysis... https://mypoetryforpeace.weebly.com/if-i-forget-you-jerusalem.html

"Jorge, no matter where we go together" - Sarina Romero; To Jorge Luis Borges... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/157925/to-jorge-luis-borges

There seems to be much more in the poem of Sarina Romero. The poem imitates a prose text, but the image of the canvas driven in to the sea predominates. It's perhaps about our historical American contradictions that cling to us. Did you know that Sarina Romero is from California?

"K WAS SUPPOSED TO COME WITH THE KEY, I WAS" K WAS SUPPOSED TO COME WITH THE KEY, I WAS (Danish poem by Ulrikka S. Gernes, translated into English by Canadian poet/translators Per Brask and Patrick Friesen)
https://griffinpoetryprize.com/poem/k-was-supposed-to-come-with-the-key-i-was/

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No I didn't know Sarina Romero's origins. I read she's from Oakland, CA... I worked in Oakland very briefly and lived in Southern Alameda County, same county as Oakland, from 1969-1976... High School years, brief College stint, and first marriage. Sarina appears very young; her linkedin page shows her interest in Education and has since relocated to New York.

She alludes to a massacre in Mexico at Tlatelolco in a 1968 protest prior to the Olympic Games... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacre as well as
Tlatelolco has marked the history of massacres and national injustice in Mexico in other historical ways which have permeated the arts such as it being a place of Aztec sacrificial performances, being the place where the Aztecs surrendered to the Spanish, and giving way to legitimizing the genocide of indigenous people in Mexico.[28]... the 3000 years of heritage ?

"the image of the canvas driven in to the sea" is a grand statement.

Interesting poem about relationship change. Ulrikka Gernes bio... https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poets/ulrikka-gernes

"Living is no laughing matter:" - Nazim Hokmet; On Living... https://www.poetrycat.com/nazim-hikmet/on-living

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re:Sarina Romero, thanks for the information. She doesn´t have a wikipedia page but she seems to be from Oakland, California.

"On Leaving". A beautiful poem full of sensibility. :)

"O Merlin in your crystal cave".Merlin by Edwin Muir

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/merlin/

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Enjoyed :) Brings to mind "The Lady of Shallot" by Tennyson which we discussed elsewhere (Book Game/Movie Game?) though not alluding to it.

"Not tired of 'earin' stories! You're a nailer, so you are!" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Groom's Encore... https://www.poetrycat.com/arthur-conan-doyle/the-grooms-encore

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re: Book Title Game I think it was.

Enjoyed Conan Doyle´s poem very much, specially the language!

"Out of Wonder World I think you come;"From Wonder World by Kate Greenaway
https://www.poetrycat.com/kate-greenaway

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"Out of Wonder World..." Precious little poem; copied it for an occasion for my great-granddaughter (with proper credit to the author of course)... maybe for Easter :)

"Past the despairing wail" - Friedrich Schiller; Elysium.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/friedrich-schiller/elysium-30714

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:) How old is your granddaughter? I confuse a bit your grandchildren and your great grandchildren.

Enjoyed Elysium!

Poem Quebec by Jean Blewett.
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/quebec-1

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Great-Grand Daughter is 1 / Great-Grandson is 4 :) Grandkids: 26/22/15 :)

Enjoyed Quebec... "The white doves perch upon the cannons grim,
The flowers bloom where once did run a tide
Of crimson, when the moon rose pale and dim
Above the battlefield so grim and wide."

"red rock giants" - Micaela Merryman; 34°54’15’’ N 111°47’30’’ W... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/158135/345415-n-1114730-w

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re:Grandkids old enough to enjoy poetry; GGkids occupied in producing it!

Enjoyed Merryman's sharpness!

"In Sleeping Beauty's castle" Immortality by Lisel Mueller
https://www.poetrycat.com/lisel-mueller/immortality

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Enjoyed Lisel Mueller's retrospective in S2 :)

"Tree, tree" - Federico García Lorca; Arbolé, Arbolé... https://poets.org/poem/arbole-arbole

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Enjoyed the bilingual poem "Tree, tree" very much.
" Under an arch of glorious leaves I passed"."Michael Oaktree" by Alfred Noyes
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/alfred-noyes

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A thoughtful and majestic poem on life :)

"Vital spark of heav'nly flame," - Alexander Pope; The Dying Christian To His Soul... https://www.poetrycat.com/alexander-pope/the-dying-christian-to-his-soul

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An intense poem!

"WE saw Thee in Thy balmy nest,"Verses from the Shepherds' Hymn" by Richard Crashaw
https://englishverse.com/poems/verses_from_the_shepherds_hymn

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A very pious poem :)

Poem by a poet who has an "X" in his/her name:
"After the lotus flowers have opened- West Lake is good." - Xiu Ouyang; After the Lotus Flowers Have Opened (Picking Mulberries)... http://www.chinese-poems.com/oyx7.html

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Lol! "Poem by a poet who has an "X" in his/her name". Creative solution with elusive "X ". Charming poem!

"Young palmer sun, that to these shining sands" A Sunrise Song by Sidney Lanier
https://www.poetrycat.com/sidney-lanier

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Ah... invoking Saladin. I found an animated Crusade's history involving Saladin & Baldwin, unfortunately interrupted by ads on occasion, that tells the true story that the movie The Kingdom of Heaven was based on that I found fascinating... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7L2eWwQq84

"Zones marked on campus." - Quinntero; Zombies vs. Humans Haiku...
https://tdc.ds106.us/writings/zombies-vs-humans-haiku/

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Interesting Cruzade Video. Here is the film:https://www.google.com/search?q=the+kingdom+of+heaven+full+movie+youtube&biw=1034&bih=450&tbm=vid&ei=gyIoZN27AczN1sQPktSz-Ao&oq=The+Kingdom+of+Heaven+complete&gs_lcp=Cg1nd3Mtd2l6LXZpZGVvEAEYADIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABA WEB4yBggAEBYQHjoHCAAQigUQQzoHCAAQgAQQEzoICAAQFhAeE BM6CggAEBYQHhAPEBNQgkFYn2xgmrkBaABwAHgAgAGKAYgBywi SAQQwLjEwmAEAoAEBwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz-video#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:1c48a177,vid:SoI5w0_46Ww

Funny zombie haiku.

"A bird flew out at the break of day"The Ballad Of God-Makers by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/gilbert-keith-chesterton

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Somber poem.

"By many a bard the Cameron clan is sung," - Nora Pembroke; To Hon. Malcom Cameron.... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke/to-hon-malcom-cameron

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Loved the pacifist poem!

On a lighter note:
"Clothes and the Man I sing. Reformers, note" A Ballad Of Buttonry by John Kendall
https://www.poetrycat.com/john-kendall/a-ballad-of-buttonry

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The Hardest Button To Button taken to historical revision :)

"Don't judge a book by its cover." - Poppy Cooke; Love Is Better Than Hate... https://lyricstranslate.com/en/poppy-cooke-love-better-hate-lyrics.html

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LoL. "Love Is Better Than Hate..." Morals better than rhymes.

"Macavity’s a Mystery Cat: he’s called the Hidden Paw". Macavity: The Mystery Cat by T. S. Eliot
https://poets.org/poem/macavity-mystery-cat

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lolololol poem... AND jumping to "m" already! Another delightful cat poem out of order for your enjoyment :)

"Oh I am a cat that likes to" - Stevie Smith; The Galloping Cat
... https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-galloping-cat

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Aiaiai!Confused title with first line and jumped half the alphabet! Thanks, tailor, galloping indeed! Humbly getting back to "e", but tomorrow. Tomorrow is another day!

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"E'en as the bird, who midst the leafy bower".The Divine Comedy by Dante: The Vision Of Paradise: Canto XXIII
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/dante-alighieri/divine-comedy-by-dante-the-vision-of-paradise-canto-xxiii-14174

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Inspired poem. Trying to figure out who Trivia alludes to...
Found Polyhymnia: muse of sacred poetry :)

"Fiercer than tiger, savager than bear," - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet CXIX. Questa umil fera, un cor di tigre o d' orsa. / He Prays Her Either to Welcome or Dismiss Him at Once.... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/sonnet-cxix

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re: Don´t know if this analysis is helpful, but there are some explanations, including of Trivia:
https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/dante/divine-comedy/paradiso/paradiso-23/

"God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers" God Scatters Beauty by Walter Savage Landor
https://www.poetrycat.com/walter-savage-landor/god-scatters-beauty

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Thanks!... enjoyed the analysis :)

God Scatters Beauty... a beautiful, short poem :)


"Hark, neighbor, for one moment stay!" - Friedrich Schiller; Dialogue.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/friedrich-schiller/dialogue-30686

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Enjoyed Schillers poem. Tried to find it in German, but the title may be different.

"I have no silver-saddled horse to ride," About My Poetry by Nazim Hikmet
https://www.poetrycat.com/nazim-hikmet/about-my-poetry

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About My Poetry by Nazim Hikmet: An appropriate poem for a man of his sensibilities.

"Jacob Lawrence" - William J. Harris; The Beauty of Bareness... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/159463/the-beauty-of-bareness

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Jacob Lawrence, an interesting artist. Reminds me a bit of Tarsila do Amaral:
https://www.moma.org/artists/3418

"Keep love for youth, and violets for the spring".Autumn Violets by Christina Georgina Rossetti
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/christina-georgina-rossetti/autumn-violets-29923

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"Or if a later sadder love be born,
Let this not look for grace beyond its scope,
But give itself, nor plead for answering truth -
A grateful Ruth tho' gleaning scanty corn." :)

"Love knoweth every form of air," - Nathaniel Parker Willis; The Annoyer... https://www.poetrycat.com/nathaniel-parker-willis/the-annoyer

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re:"Autumn Violets" - I don´t quite agree with Rossetti. Maybe I´m not realistic enough, but I think there is no special age for love. But the poem is so beautifully worded, that I had to choose it.

"The Annoyer"-a charming poem about the nature of love.

"Music doth uplift me like a sea". "Music" by Charles Baudelaire
https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-baudelaire/music

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re: Rossetti - agreed.

re: "Music...": "I feel the tremblings of all passions known
To ships before the breeze;
Cradled by gentle winds, or tempest-blown"... delightful :)

"November is so drear and chill" - Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass; November... https://www.poetrycat.com/nancy-rebecca-campbell-glass/november

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Beautiful poem by Nancy Campbell, but hm... it seems that spring has n´t shown much of itself in your realms yet.

"Oh, children of the tropics," "A Rallying Cry" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
https://www.poetrycat.com/frances-ellen-watkins-harper

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A gorgeous Spring day today... even saw a Bumble Bee upon a Dandelion :)

Beautiful poem.

"Pink is an unhappy hue, not soothing like cerulean, nor calming like" - Dara Yen Elerath; Against Pink[/i]... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/159037/against-pink

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:)
Against Pink- Lol! Interesting prose poem. Not my favorite color, but nothing against pink. Our minister of human rights of the last government uttered the famous sentence"Boys wear blue, girls wear pink". As a protest several celebrities started to wear pink shirts.

"Quite a proud and happy man is Finn the packer"."The Tin-Pot Mill" by Edward Dyson.
https://www.poeticous.com/edward-dyson/the-tin-pot-mill?locale=it

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re: Pink - Lol

Fun poem with a notable refrain; a wonky industrial revolution celebration :)

"Risk is the Hair that holds the Tun" - Emily Dickinson; Risk is the Hair that holds the Tun... https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogspot.com/2016/02/risk-is-hair-that-holds-tun-1-seductive.html

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"Risk is the Hair that holds the Tun". Original and cryptic approach.

"Sail fast, sail fast," "A Song of the Future "by Sidney Lanier
https://www.poetrycat.com/sidney-lanier

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Delightful poem :)

"Thou saddened one whose longing eyes" - Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass; In Sincerity... https://www.poetrycat.com/nancy-rebecca-campbell-glass/in-sincerity

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"In Sincerity"- a sincere religious poem.

"Up and be doing, all who have a hand" "A Call To National Service" by Thomas Hardy
https://www.poetrycat.com/thomas-hardy

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Enjoyed: "Untended as a wild of weeds and sand.
- Say, then, "I come!" and go, O women and men
Of palace, ploughshare, easel, counter, pen;
That scareless, scathless, England still may stand." :)

Must have been a call to arms for everyone during WWI

"Very loud a mad frenzy The wooden" - Hoa Nguyen My Idea of the Circus Is My Idea of the Circus Otherwise Known As: My Mother Was a Celebrated Stunt Motorcyclist, Vietnam, 1958 to 1962... https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/my-idea-circus-my-idea-circus-otherwise-known-my-mother-was-celebrated-stunt

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Hoa Nguyen- Very interesting, modern approach to the theme of love.

"When the moon was full they came to the water."Moon Fishing" by Lisel Mueller
https://www.poetrycat.com/lisel-mueller/moon-fishing

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"and one with a silver cup." :)

Poem by poet whose name has an 'x' in it:

"Scraps of cloud in rosy dusk- West Lake is good." - Ouyang Xiu; Scraps of Cloud in Rosy Dusk (Picking Mulberries)... http://www.chinese-poems.com/oyx9.html

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Beautiful Chinese poem! You have posted a poem from this site before, but I yust now noticed how delicate this poems are and bookmarked the page.:)

"You ask me how to pray to someone who is not." "On Prayer" by Czeslaw Milosz
https://www.poetrycat.com/czeslaw-milosz

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They are nice... I've used 4 of 10 queued... so 6 more by this august poet :)

Czeslaw Milosz: quite celebrated... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czesław_Miłosz

Enjoyed :) His poem is quite in contrast with how he was honored upon his death, perhaps written during his atheistic years, yet quite complex as one reads it closely:


Thousands of people lined the streets to witness his coffin moved by military escort to his final resting place at Skałka Roman Catholic Church, where he was one of the last to be commemorated.[85]... Protesters threatened to disrupt the proceedings on the grounds that Miłosz was anti-Polish, anti-Catholic, and had signed a petition supporting gay and lesbian freedom of speech and assembly.[87] Pope John Paul II, along with Miłosz's confessor, issued public messages confirming that Miłosz had received the sacraments, which quelled the protest.[88]... Though raised Catholic, Miłosz as a young man came to adopt a "scientific, atheistic position mostly", though he later returned to the Catholic faith.[137] He translated parts of the Bible into Polish, and allusions to Catholicism pervade his poetry, culminating in a long 2001 poem, "A Theological Treatise".

Will have to look up more of his translated poetry :)

"Zeitgeist of the city, cranes with broken necks" - Jim Groom; Ziggy...
https://tdc.ds106.us/writings/ziggy/

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I wasn´t aware that Czeslaw Milosz had such an interesting life. Have to look more into his writings.

Ziggy-interesting, synthetic poem!

"A man doesn't have time in his life". "A Man In His Life" by Yehuda Amichai
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/yehuda_amichai/poems/60

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Enjoyed ! "He will die as figs die in autumn,
Shriveled and full of himself and sweet,
the leaves growing dry on the ground,
the bare branches pointing to the place
where there's time for everything." A biblical analogy I can relate to :) I have two different types of fig trees, one now overrun by blackberries :( The purple fruited tree is only harvested by me and the birds and the bugs.

"Barada, oh father of all rivers" - Nizar Qabbani; Barada... https://www.poetrycat.com/nizar-qabbani/barada

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re: Still related to the theme of Armichai´s poem this song I love( and you know of course):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ga_M5Zdn4

"The purple fruited tree is only harvested by me and the birds and the bugs." :)

"Could my heart hold another one?" "Within" by Susan Coolidge
https://www.poetrycat.com/susan-coolidge/within

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Classic song befitting a sacred scripture... the 12-string guitar and perfect harmonies, bright and haunting, still resonate today.

Beautiful poem... I'd replace "slaves" with attendants to take away the historic sting, albeit lightly.

"Despite the storms," - S.C. Lourie; Despite The Storms... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/despite-the-storms

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re: Agree 100% about the word "slaves". Was even in doubt about posting the otherwise beautiful poem.

"Despite the storms," -an optimistic poem!

"Each strips his own skin". "Wedding" by Vasko Popa
https://www.poetrycat.com/vasko-popa/wedding

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The poem is a bit surreal for my understanding even in its simple word play.

"From morn to eve, from evening unto morning," - Nora Pembroke; Lamentation... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke/lamentation

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re: "Wedding" must be a famous poem, because I found it on several websites.Unfortunately I didn´t found any analysis, but only this general description of Vasco Popa`s poetry:

"Vasko Popa wrote in a succinct modernist style that owed much to surrealism and Serbian folk traditions (via the influence of Serbian poet Momčilo Nastasijević) and absolutely nothing to the Socialist Realism that dominated Eastern European literature after World War II. He created a unique poetic language, mostly elliptical, that combines a modern form, often expressed through colloquial speech and common idioms and phrases, with old, oral folk traditions of Serbia – epic and lyric poems, stories, myths, riddles, etc. In his work, earthly and legendary motifs mix, myths come to surface from the collective subconscious, the inheritance and everyday are in constant interplay, and the abstract is reflected in the specific and concrete, forming a unique and extraordinary poetic dialectics.."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasko_Popa

"Lamentation"- Beautiful but very sad poem, specially as it seems to be dedicated to her own sons.

"God bless the man who gave us rest" "Stanzas" by Freeman Edwin Miller
https://www.poetrycat.com/freeman-edwin-miller/stanzas-god-bless-the-man-who-gave-us-rest

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Enjoyed the wiki. Considering he wrote in colloquial Serbian using the language tools he created, the translations I've read are mostly accessible.

Stanzas: Intriguing poem...

"Her cheek was wet with North Sea spray," - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; By The North Sea... https://www.poetrycat.com/arthur-conan-doyle/by-the-north-sea

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Charming poem by Conan Doyle, who I hitherto associated only with detective stories.

"In the middle of countries, far from hills and sea," "Out Of The Window" by Aldous Leonard Huxley
https://www.poetrycat.com/aldous-leonard-huxley/out-of-the-window

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... and Huxley whom one associates with dystopia; enjoyed his train poem :)

"Just come to my mind" - Vasko Popa; Give Me Back My Rags... https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22604

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re: Poetry Cat offering some good surprises by authors mostly known by their prose. :)

"Give Me Back My Rags..." Reveals a rather ferocious disposition of mind!

"King's daughter sitting in tower so high,". "The Raven And The King's Daughter" by William Morris
https://www.poetrycat.com/william-morris/the-raven-and-the-kings-daughter

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re: "Rags" - Yes... a very angry poem :(

Enjoyed the conversation poem... the princess will receive her love I believe.

"Long since, I lived beneath vast porticoes," - Charles Baudelaire; A Former Life... https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-baudelaire/a-former-life

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A former Life: "Tended by many a naked, perfumed slave," so, so!

"Mother! Mother!" "Mother. - Alpha and Omega."
https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-castner-king/mother---alpha-and-omega

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re: "so, so!... about what we'd expect from the French romanticist's fantasies.

Tender poem Mother. - Alpha and Omega

Since Mother's day in the U.S.A. is approaching in May our challenge for last Thursday's deadline for our meager poetry group was, of course, "Mothers". Here's what I shared with the group:

“There is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.”
– M. Russell Ballard




Mother

My Mother was chosen before she was born the

Origin heavenly defined, and choired angels

Tell of our premortal story, divinely whispering

Holy hymning to all who would become mothers to

Eternity - my wife, my daughter mothers too as one

Rejoicing, glorifying Heavenly parents one to another

4/13/2023 r. 4/15/2023

Golden shovel: "The angels, whispering to one another," - Edgar Allan Poe, a line from ‘To My Mother’... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55569/to-my-mother-56d2374c0d434

Acrostic: Mother

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"No poems to write now." - Imran Sada’i; Sinking... https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2023-04/three-poems-imran-sadai-joshua-freeman/?src=mailchimp&mc_cid=551f37d9b1&mc_eid=fb5284d202

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Enjoyed the poem with acrostic. I was quite unconscious of the approaching Mother's day. In Brazil it is celebrated on the second Sunday of May.

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re: Mothers Day - here too.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

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Sorry, I didn´t notice the poem starting with "N", discreetly at the bottom of the post. "No poems to write now." by Imran Sada’i is short but incisive and I loved the initiative of the project to translate these poems into English.

"Of whispering trees the tongues to hear," "He Heeded Not"by George MacDonald
https://www.poetrycat.com/george-macdonald

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An evolving poem :) Very influential writer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_MacDonald

"Plague's contagious murderous breath" - Friedrich Schiller; The Plague. A Phantasy... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/friedrich-schiller/plague-a-phantasy-30677

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re: Indeed, and he seems to be forgotten today!Thanks for his Wikipedia link.

"The Plague" A drastic poem!

"Quit questioning why the Q man can't quite collate as he is queried in his quasi state." Alliteration of Q by Ocean Fury
https://allpoetry.com/poem/12492148-Alliteration-of-Q-by-Ocean-Fury

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lol... fun alliteration :)

"Renunciation - is a piercing Virtue" - Emily Dickinson; Renunciation is a piercing Virtue... https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogspot.com/2016/01/renunciation-is-piercing-virtue-card.html

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Seems I forgot to log out.

I love Emily Dickinson but I can´t make much out of these riddle poems. And someone had the bad idea of printing them all on a black background, not a feast for bad eyes.

"Such oranges! so fresh and sweet," "A Leap Year Episode" by Hattie Howard
https://www.poetrycat.com/hattie-howard/a-leap-year-episode

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"While redolence seemed wafted in
From orchard-groves of Mandarin." :)

Affairs of the heart - Who knew an orange could be used thus ?

"To keep your marriage brimming" - Ogden Nash; A Word To Husbands... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/a-word-to-husbands-by-ogden-nash

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re: Indeed!
Lol! Good advice!

"Under the high unclouded sun". "Northward" by John Milton Hay
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/john-milton-hay

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Wonderful poem :)

"voyage, oh voyage!" - Etel Adnan; voyage, oh voyage!... https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/voyage-oh-voyage

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"voyage, oh voyage!" A very original poem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etel_Adnan and http://www.eteladnan.com/

"We little children join to praise" "Children's Song" by Nora Pembroke
https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembroke

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Enjoyed the hymn poem... wasn't aware of (or forgot) the ligature &c... learned something new :)

re: Etel Adnan - Thank you for the links :) wikipedia:
In 2003, Adnan was named "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today" by the academic journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. Wonderful celebrated artist in many media who passed on in 2021 at the age of 96 and deserves greater praise and study :)

X:

“Ten thousand miles away your soul has flown;” - Xi Jinping; In Memory of Jiao Yulu... https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/topics_665678/zggcddwjw100ggs/xsd/202208/t20220826_10754269.html

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re: Wasn´t aware either.

You never stop surprising me.A poem by Xi Jinping? President Lula visited him recently. But who would have thought him the author of these verses?

In Memory of Jiao Yulu...

"Ten thousand miles away your soul has flown; the rivers, mountains and land yearn for your return. The people mourn the loss of a caring official, tears flooding under the empress trees you planted. Having dedicated your life to the desert, to the betterment of people’s lives, your legacy lives on no matter how many years come and go."

The moon shining bright as always, I think of you and your life’s work. You toiled long and hard, claiming no credit. Serving and benefiting the people: such was your ambition and is also mine. Many a trickle will add a touch of green to the desert and create a wellspring of hope."

"When midnight mists are creeping," "Dreamland" by Lewis Carroll
https://www.poetrycat.com/lewis-carroll/dreamland-when-midnight-mists-are-creeping

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re: Xi Jinping - Warrior politician with the soul of a poet perhaps. Read about the two meeting in my news feed; an economic summit of some sort if I recall.

re: Dreamland - "When midnight mists are creeping,
And all the land is sleeping,
Around me tread the mighty dead,
And slowly pass away." - I might have been inclined to stop with these four powerful lines :)

Going with another poet with the letter 'x' in his/her name:

"After the fresh blossoms have gone- West Lake is good." - Ouyang Xiu; After the Fresh Blossoms Have Gone (Picking Mulberries)... http://www.chinese-poems.com/oyx4.html

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re: Dreamland - a good synthesis.
Ouyang Xiu; After the Fresh Blossoms Have Gone -Delicate sad poem

"You've asked me what the lobster is weaving there with " "Enigmas" by Pablo Neruda
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/pablo_neruda/poems/15724

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Incredible poem by Neruda :)

"Zoo is a place of fun," - Daniele Niepokoj; A Zoo you should go...
https://tdc.ds106.us/writings/a-zoo-you-should-go/

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Enjoyed the aliterative poem with difficult "Z",

"ATTEND my lays, ye ever honour'd nine," "An Hymn To The Morning" by Phillis Wheatley
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/phillis_wheatley/poems/17810

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Beautiful rhyming poem :)

"Before the grandeur" - karl marszalowicz; The Blank Page... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/the_blank_page_551146

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re: "An Hymn To The Morning". Did you recognize the poet? https://www.loa.org/writers/684-phillis-wheatley

"The Blank Page." Poetry as a way to fame.

"Calling, the heron flies athwart the blue" "The Creek-Road" by Madison Julius Cawein

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/madison-julius-cawein/creek-road-37005

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Yes, after your link :)

Dreamy poem with an interesting rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdedce

"Dismounted, we drank to bid you farewell." - Wang Wei; Farewell... https://mandarinmatrix.org/famous-chinese-poems/

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Enjoyed "Farewell". I'm reproducing the poem here because Matrix put a partial impediment on the page.

“Farewell”, by Wang Wei

"Dismounted, we drank to bid you farewell.

I asked, “My friend, where are you heading?”

You said, “Oh, nothing is working my way,

So be back to the crags of Nanshan, retiring.”

“Go then! You’ll ask of the world no more!

Ah, days of endless white clouds, unending!”
https://mandarinmatrix.org/famous-chinese-poems/

"Every valley drinks,"Winter Rain by Christina Georgina Rossetti
https://www.poetrycat.com/christina-georgina-rossetti/winter-rain

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Beautiful poem by CGR... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Rossetti... I'll borrow it for this week's Thursday at Two poetry group to share as a poem from another poet :) Our creative theme for 5/4/2023 is Earth Day or Nature or May the 4th (be with you)/Sci Fi... and I haven't settled yet but have some ideas percolating.

"Friends" - Nizar Qabbani; Verse... https://www.poetrycat.com/nizar-qabbani/verse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizar_Qabbani

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Loved "Friends". Put it into the other forum in a thread of favorite universal poems.

"G o on your way, my youthful friend,"To Master George Twiddy by Thomas Frederick Young
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/thomas-frederick-young/to-master-george-twiddy-34583

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An homage acrostic to George Twiddy :)

"His amphibian torso" - Fady Joudah; Maqam of Palm Trees (for Rahim El hajj)... https://www.sukoonmag.com/responsive/tag/etel-adnan/

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Maqam of Palm Trees-Interesting, complex images.

"maqām, (Arabic: “place of residence”), a spiritual stage that periodically marks the long path followed by Muslim mystics (Sufis) leading to the vision of and union with God."
https://www.google.com/search?q=Maquam-meaning&oq=Maquam-meaning&aqs=chrome..69i57.13953j0j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

"In the early morning-shine". Life’s Hebe by James Thomson (BV)
https://www.poetrycat.com/james-thomson-bv

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The 7-major maqāms of Sufism are enlightening.

Enjoyed the poem :) Hebe: Daughter of Zeus/Hera, sister to Ares, wife to Herakles - cup bearer to the gods whose draught was immortality and could bring youth back to the old in mythology... https://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/Hebe.html

"Joy in Trojan congregations" - Friedrich Schiller; Cassandra... https://www.thechainedmuse.com/post/2018/11/10/on-the-anniversary-of-the-great-german-poet-of-freedoms-birthday-friedrich-schiller

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Enjoyed the poem and the link about Hebe. Additionally to the poem:https://www.saxonica.com/~mike/OdeToJoy.html and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJcQYVtZMo.

"My daughter plays on the floor" "Spelling" by Margaret Atwood
https://www.poetrycat.com/margaret-atwood/spelling

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"Ode" - the first link echoed the frustration with translating... the second brought me tears of joy :)

"My daughter..." - Powerful graphic poem: https://letsexploreliterature.wordpress.com/2015/07/15/lets-explore-spelling-by-margaret-atwood/

"Near Hastings, on the shingle-beach," - Toru Dutt; Near Hastings... https://www.poetrycat.com/toru-dutt/near-hastings